Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sadly the answer " No " is rarely given to this question and because of this a great many releases go out which are of marginal interest to the recipients . |
| 2 | The restricted B-share has since fallen to 161 , reducing the total market capitalisation to 10.7 billion crowns . |
| 3 | Performance measurement in the private sector is almost wholly limited to financial measures , under the tacit assumption that competitive markets are the best judge of the relative value of the goods and services provided . |
| 4 | The way of life in these republics in the 1980s remained demonstrably much more ‘ Western ’ than that in the other Soviet republics , and they were among those most exposed to outside cultural influences ( Estonia , for instance , had ready access to Finnish television and ‘ Dallas ’ and ‘ Dynasty ’ had a devoted following ) . |
| 5 | The main wind-break should protect the side of the garden most exposed to prevailing winds , with individual or grouped shrubs positioned to limit the impact of other seasonal winds and create sheltered corners for delicate plants . |
| 6 | France oscillated between mid-nineteenth-century free trade and , more lastingly , protectionism : slow to industrialize , France , for most of the Third Republic ( 1870–1940 ) , was little given to central planning or state interventionism . |
| 7 | Second , the role of the Careers Officer will be important in ensuring that Compact vacancies are properly communicated to young people , and in monitoring Compact jobs to ensure that they offer employed status , quality training and career progression . |
| 8 | Arguing that a dominant group may be so well entrenched that it is unaware of any potential challenge , Lukes points to the importance of socially and culturally patterned behaviour , to ways of acting and thinking which are taken for granted and which are rarely exposed to serious challenge . |
| 9 | Dilatation was resumed after a gap of three to four weeks and the strictures were successfully dilated to 45 FG in all without further complication . |
| 10 | At that time about 90 per cent of households lived in privately-rented accommodation ; the figure has since dropped to 8 per cent . |
| 11 | This had all been properly reported to Eighth Army . |
| 12 | I am not myself wholeheartedly committed to any of them but they deserve our attention . |
| 13 | CID is also being extended to cover those persons forcibly confined to psychiatric hospitals . |
| 14 | 1:1 nitric acid solution ( 10 ml concentrated nitric acid slowly added to 10 ml water in a 50 ml beaker ) . |
| 15 | Robespierre 's experiment was , scarcely surprisingly , a dismal failure ; and while the delicious dream of a universal , natural and reasonable religion may have an understandable attraction for those who are influenced by but not wholly committed to Christian ( or some other ) belief , it does not appear capable of offering any very stable resting-place , or any adequate defence against the more radical challenges to religion as such which have been raised from without and within Christian theology in modern times . |
| 16 | Jackson 's work is fundamentally committed to formal concerns ; the spatial effects of colour , the purity of form , the dynamics of line ; the paintings appear both as experiments in aesthetics and exercises in logic . |
| 17 | Even the Liberal party has eventually come to that conclusion — even the Albanian Government have come to that conclusion . |
| 18 | As the foreword says , the Code is most importantly addressed to each local authority . |
| 19 | In Drosophila the spatial expression of dpou-19 , ( pdm-2 ) , dpou-28 ( pdm-1 ) , and cfla is predominantly confined to restricted areas at the cellular blastoderm stage and , later in development , to the embryonic nervous system and the hindgut ( 17,18 ) . |
| 20 | NCD 's share shows no sign of slipping , says Greg Blatnik of the X Business Group , even though the system vendors are all likely to increase their share — one reason might be that it 's more important for NCD systems to work with a variety of hosts — Peter Wellings of NCD 's UK distributor Xanadu claims that DEC , for instance , has had its X-terminal success mostly confined to existing DEC installations . |
| 21 | The showers , mostly confined to western areas , will be heavy with thunder , and will spread to some other parts later . |
| 22 | The package , which confirmed Italy 's position as the Western state most committed to Lebanese reconstruction , comprised US$240 million in export credits , US$94 million in concessionary loans , US$64 million in grants and US$63 million in mixed credits . |
| 23 | This , supposedly , is when students are most committed to independent study and this is when students ' weaknesses in study skills techniques are most readily exposed . |
| 24 | Even in the mid-1950s the differences between the two , however acute in 1956 , are better likened to temporary volcanic eruptions than to fundamental alterations to the landscape . |
| 25 | It would not be quite true to claim that his wide experience of light music , and the strain of singing long parts , with numerous encores , throughout the week left no mark on either his style or his vocal chords ; but he can be justly likened to two other similarly popular tenors , John McCormack and Tito Schipa , in his ability to return successfully to serious music until the end of his career . |
| 26 | The total number of schools associated with the various projects is small , and , while even these may not continue to incorporate the new ideas in their user education , they have been sufficiently exposed to new approaches to schools user education to suggest that for them at least and probably for many other schools traditional school library instruction will not be quite the same again . |
| 27 | And that 's quite an achievement because the Gold Star award is only given to five per cent of resorts in the world . |
| 28 | These are only given to skilled people who contribute to the US economy . |
| 29 | Once upon a time , the title was only given to those with a good handful of letters after their name . |
| 30 | It is strongly advised that this privilege is only given to responsible users — please contact Sema Software Technology Technical Support Department for further advice . |